Behind Expedia’s Media Enterprise
Many know Expedia.com for its bevy of hotel-booking businesses such as Hotwire and Hotels.com, but its burgeoning media services division is a lesser-known Internet name....
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New FireChat App Takes Mobile Chatting ‘Off The Grid’
This week, MMW was privy to a sneak peek at a groundbreaking new app from Open Garden, a San Francisco-based startup with an appetite for...
The world needs to unite on privacy and trust: EU official
The future of the Internet demands a new proactive attitude in how governments, the industry and academia collectively manage issues such as privacy, security and...
Celcos beware: Voice-over-data players gunning for you
Mobile operators have to start innovating fast or else the Internet players will start eating their lunch, argues Edwin Yapp.
Wine Enthusiast Cracks Down On Cross-Channel Waste With Convertro
Despite Wine Enthusiast’s history marketing through direct mail, the purveyor of accessories and storage for wine connoisseurs is pushing into digital channels to complement its...
Yahoo Apologizes For Funny Gmail Tweet, Earns Internet’s Scorn
Oh, Yahoo. The lumbering Silicon Valley giant can’t seem to get out of its way. This afternoon, after Gmail experienced worldwide outages for a brief...
An undetermined number of brilliant things we’ve seen on the internet this week
‘Him’ Spike Jonze’s latest film Her features the disturbingly mustachioed Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with a Siri-style operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Prepare...
Privacy 2014: NSA Use of Commercial Tracking Tech Reignites Debate
If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, you really should pore through all of this Washington Post investigative piece on the National...
GE Designates Dec. 3 as ‘3D Printing Day,’ 3D-Prints Xmas Gifts
Peanut butter has a day. So do donuts. So why shouldn’t 2013’s most-hyped technology also get one? General Electric is on it, folks. It has...
Ubiquitous-in-Adland Michael Kassan Gets His Own Radio Show
If you’re in the ad business, there’s probably been a time when you’ve wondered if Michael Kassan has doppelgangers to help him be in several...
Twitter Seeks $1.4 Billion in Biggest Web IPO Since Facebook
Twitter is seeking as much as $1.4 billion in the largest Internet initial public offering since Facebook, betting it can convince investors of its ability...
Here’s What Happened in Mobile Marketing This Week
In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories in mobile marketing and advertising we’ve been following this week. IAB: Mobile Advertising...
ActionX and Branding Brand Announce Mobile Commerce Partnership
NEW YORK – ActionX (www.actionx.com), the first platform that connects the dots between mobile customer acquisition and mobile retargeting, announced a partnership with Branding Brand, the...
Mobile advertising to grow 7x fasterthan desktop internet ads
Mobile advertising is definitely on a growth spurt these days. According to Publicis-owned ad agency ZenithOptimedia, global advertising will grow at a respectable rate of...
Ben Huh, The Man Who Popularized Internet FAILs, Wants To Reinvent The News
Ben Huh has built an Internet empire on humor, pratfalls and a healthy dose of Schadenfreude. And now he wants to dramatically alter the way...
Wall Street Nervously Watching Apple Stores on Friday
As the new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C arrive at Apple stores today, shares of AAPL are trading without much upward or downward movement. Investors...
